Greatest Spring Classics Riders – Anna van der Breggen
Anna van der Breggen is on the greatest female Spring Classics riders. A winner of nearly all of the biggest races, she is the Queen of the Ardennes.
Anna van der Breggen is on the greatest female Spring Classics riders. A winner of nearly all of the biggest races, she is the Queen of the Ardennes.
The cycling season is effectively on hold due to the worldwide measures against the coronavirus. So now is a good time to look back at the first 3 months of the season. We’ve seen plenty of different races, starting in Australia and New Zealand, then heading to Asia for the Dubai Tour and warm-up races …
Drentse Acht van Westerveld, an actual race! Despite everything that’s going on, the race organisers have managed to find a way for this race to happen…
It’s been a running joke all Winter, the 2020 cycling season starts with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. All that Australian stuff like the Cadel Evans race were all just pre-season friendlies. Designed to prepare riders for this race (and all the others this year!). I don’t necessarily subscribe to that view. However, the Spring Classics are …
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California here we come, right back where we started from – or something. The Women’s Tour of California is a 3 stage race with a couple of sprint stages and 1 queen stage that will see the general classification sorted. And it starts tonight for us Brits. The sprint stages are no formality though. Stage …
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The Women’s Tour de Yorkshire includes two hilly 132km stages on 3 and 4 May. Both stages will be broadcasted live in full on ITV4 from 9am-1pm The 2019 Women’s Tour de Yorkshire is a World Tour race in all but name. It’s got a stacked startlist, live coverage of the full stages, the race …
This Sunday’s Liege Bastogne Liege will be the first with the new finale. Gone are the late climbs of Saint-Nicolas and Ans and replaced instead with a more or less flat run into the centre of Liege. The old favourites are still in there though – the Cols and Cotes of Stockeu, Haute-Levee, Rosier, La …
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After heading to the Netherlands for Amstel Gold, I stayed on and moved into Belgium for today’s Fleche Wallonne. I last saw this race in person in 2016 and managed to ride the finishing circuit the day before the race this year. The Mur de Huy is the centre point of the race, but it’s …
Wednesday 24th April sees the men and women’s pelotons tackle Fleche Wallone. Unlike Amstel Gold the women’s race has a solid continuous history since the first race in 1998 and similarly to the men has had a single rider dominate the finish in recent years. Alejandro Valverde’s run of 4 wins in a row was …
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Strade Bianche is a new-ish race on the men’s calendar but has had even less editions on the women’s calendar. First run in 2015, the Women’s Strade Bianche has had 4 different winners in 4 years so far and 3 different riders have each finished on the podium 3 times. Lizzie Deignan and Elisa Longo …
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